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Inside the Australian government‘s immigration detention facility on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. The refugees have been hit hard by Australia’s recent health care and counseling service cuts, as well as continued threats to their safety. (Photo by Greens MPs) Photo used under CC BY

Lack of health care pushes PNG refugees to the brink

The misery of indefinite detention in Papua New Guinea is pushing increasing numbers of refugees to attempt suicide or self-harm, according to a report by Amnesty International and the Refugee Council of Australia.

Radio NZ

EU rules against Austrian curbs on refugee rights

Deutsche Welle

Federal US ban on FGM ruled unconstitutional

A judge in Michigan has struck down the U.S. law against female genital mutilations, dropping charges against two doctors who performed FGM on underage girls.

TIME

Female circumcision part of Malaysian culture

New Strait Times

Yemen war has starved 85K children to death

An estimated 85,000 children under 5 may have died from extreme hunger in Yemen since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the civil war in 2015, according to the humanitarian body Save The Children.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Ruling imperils Bangladesh garment industry

A group set up to improve safety in Bangladesh’s garment industry after the Rana Plaza disaster is warning global fashion firms that they will have to stop sourcing from some factories if the watchdog is forced to close.

Channel NewsAsia

Libya violently forces migrants off cargo ship

Libyan authorities have used rubber bullets and tear gas to forcibly disembark refugees and migrants who had refused to leave a cargo ship docked in the port of Misrata.

Al Jazeera

UN condemns mutual violence in Cameroon

The United Nations human rights wing has expressed worry over the security situation in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone regions from where it says it continues to receive daily reports of violence on the part of state security forces and secessionist elements.

Africanews.com

Saudi Arabia tortured activists, including women, rights groups claim

CNN

HUMAN RIGHTS

Australia joins US in rejecting UN migration pact

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says signing the UN Global Compact for Migration to open up legal migration would undermine Australia’s immigration policies and is not in country’s interest.

Al Jazeera

Some Indonesian mosques advocating violence

Dozens of Indonesian mosques that cater to government workers are spreading radicalism and calling for violence against non-Muslims, according to Indonesia’s intelligence agency.

Channel NewsAsia

Saudi school textbooks teach violence, anti-Semitism, report says

NBCNews.com

DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE

Lebanon government struggles to form Cabinet

After nearly a decade of turbulent politics and postponed elections, Lebanon held its first general election since 2009 this May. Six months later, parties are still wrangling for ministerial slots to form a government.

Al Jazeera

S. Korean elected Interpol chief, blow to Russia

Interpol has elected Kim Jong Yang, a South Korean as the organization’s president, edging out a veteran of Russia’s security services who was strongly opposed by the United States, Britain and other European nations.

Yahoo! Finance

Interpol elects its next president from South Korea in a blow to Russia

YouTube

N. Korea detonates DMZ guard posts at border

North Korea blew up 10 of its front-line guard posts in the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas in accordance with agreements made with South Korea earlier this year to ‘demilitarize’ the joint security area.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

S. Africans using human urine to make bricks

Instead of being flushed away, human urine could be used as a key ingredient in the construction of a new eco-friendly house as researchers from a South African university create bricks made of it.

NEWS.com.au

New app can help citizens save starving orcas

An app is letting citizen scientists listen in on orca conversations around Washington state’s San Juan Islands. That work can help experts locate starving orcas.

Smithsonian Magazine

GLOBAL HEALTH

Cancer research focuses on needs of affluent

Giant drugmakers pouring resources into new cancer medicines are largely ignoring people outside the world’s wealthiest countries, according to a survey.

Bloomberg

N. Korea low on TB meds; experts fear epidemic

The withdrawal of a major international aid organization threatens to leave thousands of tuberculosis patients in North Korea without the medication they need. The problem could spiral into a severe crisis if it is not addressed soon.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Prakash Katoch):

The soul of Tibet, and the insecurity of China

Asia Times Online

Column (Robert Robb):

Why do we even keep a relationship with Saudi Arabia?

USA TODAY

Column (Max Walden):

Malaysia and Indonesia are bucking the global trend on democracy

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Parkland shooting survivors win peace prize

During a ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented the award, calling March For Our Lives one of the most significant youth-led mass movements in living memory.

CNBC

Acts of kindness light up Thanksgiving

MSN

Tiny endangered fox makes rapid recovery

The Santa Cruz Island fox has been removed from the Endangered Species List. The foxes, which are smaller than house cats, are revered by indigenous people who first inhabited the islands off the Californian coast.

Positive News

Brazilian school wins prize for best building

CNN

NONPROFITS AND PHILANTHROPY

Widespread neglect in Kenyan orphanages

Across Kenya, there is a culture of neglect in institutions for children with disabilities, according to Disability Rights International. An investigation found thousands of disabled children living in “dangerous” conditions.

Guardian

UN builds temporary Rohingya camps

Seventy buildings are available to temporarily shelter over 4,500 Rohingya in Bangladesh. The improved structures will allow teams to protect refugees affected by nature or other events that would force them to leave.

Devdiscourse

ENVIRONMENT

Tax havens linked to Amazonian deforestation

Money flowing from secretive tax havens is fueling deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and threatening fish stocks. That warning comes from a report published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Mongabay

Arctic climate change stalls drilling plans

A milestone oil development project in Alaska’s Arctic waters must extend its construction timeline to accommodate the shrinking sea ice season.

NPR

ECONOMY AND TRADE

Rural poverty rises in Latin America

Rural poverty has risen for the first time in a decade in Latin America and the Caribbean, reversing earlier gains, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization says.

Reuters

Amazon worker reminds us of the human cost of Black Friday

Inquisitr

Afghan opium producers cuffed by drought

Afghan opium producers were hit hard by the worst drought in living memory this year and excessive supply, with output and prices falling sharply as the area under poppy cultivation shrank.

Yahoo! News

Snow brings despair to Kashmir’s farmers

BBC

Photo of the Day

Ngikadelio, 7, eats a sachet of Instapaste at a Kenyan health clinic. He and many other children in Kenya suffer from severe acute malnutrition. (Photo by Russell Watkins/DFID) Photo used under CC BY

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